Than together. Why that is our topic this week here on quadriga and here are our guests. Badly hurt no works for spiegel online she says German Society is just beginning to deal with the disappointment and tromba eastern germans experienced after the fall of the wall. Many people felt their experiences had been ignored the aft feeds off these feelings of neglect. And its a pleasure to welcome my colleague michelle and the kids now shes chief Political Editor here at gw she says most of all these elections are about what options will be on the table when uncle the maccolls final coalition government. Leaves office. And were very pleased to have alan closer back on the show he is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper. He says a generation after the end of nazism west germany experienced an anti authoritarian you three full. A generation after the end of communism east germanys experiencing an authoritarian rippled led by old man. So let me ask all of you and ill start with yo
Which could not have been endessful if it did not successfully. The panel we have today is the panel on command module landing and recovery operations. They always say the job is not over until the paperwork is finished. The job is not over until the spacecraft is floating in the Pacific Ocean and the astronauts are successfully retrieved. We have with us four heroes of that era, people i looked up to and admired as a 14yearold watching on television back in 1969, and i wished i could be with them in the Pacific Ocean helping to retrieve those astronauts. Left,e on the panel to my heflin, melmily heflin, melmilton richmond, and terry watson. I will open it up to questions from the audience. It us started. Tell us a little bit about who you are, how you got to be involved in this business, what you did for apollo. I got here in june of 1967 after graduating in tennessee, just outside the appalachian poverty zone. I could not wait to get here because i needed to make some money. [laughte
They are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win and the others, too. [applause] early 1960s, president john kennedy said we want to galvanize our country to do something very bold, and it was the space race. We wanted to do something bold to beat the russians. Lets beat the russians by sending humans to the moon and returning us safely before the end of the 1960s. As the country is starting to think about going to the moon, one of the questions we had was, how do you know where you are going . If you travel to a foreign country, you take a map with you to figure out where you are going. If you cover to travel to a foreign world, you better have a map to you dont hit the side of a mountain or run into a crater or Something Like that. So it was a critical part of preparing to go to the moon. We are inside the historic
Were assessed . Take the entire exhibit tour of rightfully hers american women and the vote. Sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern on american artifacts. You are watching American History tv. The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story. Taking book tv and American History tv on the road every first and third weekend of the month. 20 next two hours, we will look at highlights from some of the stops. We begin in selma, alabama. Many people think that the selma, montgomery marchs bird overnight and was a oneoff idea, but there had been a modern Rights Movement brewing in selma, alabama, since the 1930s. Here in selma, alabama, and any places in the south, africanamericans were denied the right to vote, not because it was not their constitutional there wereecause folks in position of power throughout the south that did not want these folks to have the right to vote so they could be considered secondclass citizens. Toy passed a literacy test deter africanamerican
Earths environment. You can find all of the results atluding the attitudes cspan. Org. Talks chief historian, to to us about tomorrow. Marks the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 moon landing. Tell us what the 50 year mark means to you. Old whenwas 11 years that happened. I was part down in front of our blackandwhite tv in massachusetts. I thought i was in the middle of enjoying the greatest adventure that ever happened. And i was. 50 years later, i am enjoying the greatest adventure ever happened replayed, and doing it as nasas chief historian. What a ride. Host how did you get to this position . What do you do . Guest the quick answers do not do what i did if you want to be chief historian. I did eight when he to career in air force and did a lot of graduate work on the history of the soviet space program. When i retired from the air force, the then chief historian said why not apply for a job here at nasa . Applied, got the job, and ended up being the chief historian. It was right p